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Photo Booth Fun

Are you organising a wedding, a birthday party or an event and want to inject an extra element of fun to make it a party to remember? Our booths offer the highest entertainment factor, best picture quality and greatest value for money; check out some of our 160+ 5-star reviews. Weekends are filling up fast so please get in contact soon to avoid disappointment.

Standard Booth Setup

We often get asked what our standard booth setup looks like. We supply “open booths” so not like your traditional “squeeze in a box” and take a picture set up where there is poor lighting and the maximum that can fit in the booth is 4.
The advantage of the open booth are numerous: –
– More room for more people to participate at the same time
– More entertaining as on lookers can watch what goes on in the booth
– Better quality lighting meaning better image quality
– Less disruption as they are quicker to setup and take down
Our booths consist of a background (7ft x 5ft) at the rear and a photo box at the front that houses the camera, computer, lights and printer. The photo box also has a forward facing monitor so the participants can see themselves on the screen before the picture is taken. We have a selection of different backgrounds and can also supply custom backgrounds for a small fee.
The images below shows a typical setup and the result below to it: –
Standard Booth Setup

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Box of Props

One common question we always get asked is what props do you provide with your photo booths?

All of our booths come with a 60 ltr box full of high quality props, each box will contain somewhere in the region of 65-70 different props. The picture below gives you an ideas of what will be included.

Prop Box

 

If you give us enough notice we may be able to provide specific themed props to supplement our standard props plus feel free to bring along an specific props you want your guest to use in the booth.

What is a Magic Mirror?

The Magic Mirror Booth is the latest photo booth concept sweeping the nation. Our glamorous glass selfie mirror captures full length photos using a touch sensitive reflective screen. Strike a pose then customise your pictures using the on screen paint pad. Your pictures are printed in less than 12 seconds.

Here is a picture of the magic mirror plus a little demo video showing one of our booths in action

Magic Mirror Booth

The Magic Mirror from Alec Kirkham on Vimeo.

What is Green Screen?

I often get asked this question, what is green screen? Green screen is best know as the technology used in your big budget movie production with the likes of Jurassic Park and Avatar. Through the use of digital technology movie backgrounds and characters can be inserted into the scene.   This technology can also be used in our photo booths, this way you can have any background(s) you want. The example below was taken at an Alice and Wonderland themed wedding, the image on the left was what the camera captured and the image on the right was what was printed once the computer removed the green background and replaced it with a digital image: –

All Photo Booths Are Not The Same

A friend of mine recently attended her much anticipated Christmas night out where part of the planned entertainment for the evening was a photo booth. The limitations of this set-up soon became apparent to everyone: –

  • Limited to a max of 4 people at a time
  • Poor lighting
  • Only supplied with 1 print per group even though advertised as unlimited prints

So not all booths are equal, price is normally the driving factor however accessibility and quality are also important qualities. Guess which picture was taken in the enclosed booth and which one was taken in one of our open booths..

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If in any doubt the first picture was from the enclosed booth 🙂 and the second was captured in one of our open booths.

In contrast the booths we supply: –

  • Open booth for easy access, once we had 32 people in one picture (Glasgow Nike Christmas night out) all 32 received a printed copy
  • Professional quality Bowens studio lighting
  • Professional grade Canon cameras and lenses
  • Everyone in the picture receives a printed copy

Garfield Wedding Fair

I had great fun on Sunday getting to meet lots of couples would are planning their wedding. All couples had the opportunity to get dressed up with a few props and have their picture taken in one of our booths. Everyone seemed delighted with the print that they received and were amazed at how easy it was to share their digital image using our social media booth. Here are a few images from the booth: –

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